THE PLAN HAS BEEN SUBMITTED!
After many months of intensive research and consultations, the REG. 15 Henley Neighbourhood Plan, Version 11, has been submitted for review by SDC. Over the next few days ALL of the supporting documentation and correspondence attendant to this important project will be posted on this page and the JPC Councillors will be happy to answer any queries you may have about the process. We list these items below under two headings, CORRESPONDENCE and SUPPORTING DOCUMENTS, but first, an opportunity to see the fruit of the JPC’s labour, a glimpse at the Version 11 copy of the plan to download or print [only if absolutely necessary]
V11 NDP
BEAUDESERT & HENLEY IN ARDEN NEIGHBOURHOOD DEVELOPMENT PLAN SUBMISSION JUNE 2023
CORRESPONDENCE
REG-15_SUBMISSION LETTER _30.05.2023
ndp-louisa_slator_jpc-30-05-23
SUPPORTING DOCUMENTATION
Minutes of the AGM, 15th May 2023, where whole Council approved the submission copy of the NDP [Minute M9.4]
MINUTES – 15.05.2023 JPC ANNUAL MEETING
ARCHIVED DATA
THE NDP TEAM 2013-2023
Despite a lack of direct publicity and contact from the SWLP Cabinet in the introduction of the Scoping Exercise Consultation and more latterly, the Options and Issues, the SWLP questionnaire is now inevitably subject to a very short window of response. THEREFORE, there is now a greater need than ever before, for a solid Neighbourhood Development Plan [NDP] to be in place.
It is the only legal device available to a community in upholding its standards for the selection, construction, quantity, and nature of development within its boundaries.
The Henley NDP was constructed by a team of volunteers back in 2013, their efforts took a large number of hours and years to produce. In 2019-20, their Regulation 14 Edition was submitted to SDC for comment and returned with a large number of actions to be conducted before any further consideration would be given by the inspectors.
A number of the original team were understandably disappointed by this and the effort to update the plan fell mainly to the JPC who, at that time, had no real experience with such documents and were further hampered by the pandemic with all its problematic areas of communication.
Knowledge of the SWLP caused a fresh membership of the JPC to act quickly to reinstate this valuable publication and they immediately interviewed a small number of suitable candidates and engaged a professional NDP Consultant, Mr. Gary Kirk, who is now fully engaged with the JPC Planning Working Party in getting an acceptable version over the line by Autumn of this year.
Not one member of the JPC or, indeed, the public at large, has any doubt about the hard work put in by the original team and it is worth noting that approximately 85% of the original narrative and data within the plan has been retained! All the additional data SDC asked for will now be embraced in the new publication.
For those of you who are new to this worthy project, please click on the file below, where Version 10, the submission for Regulation 14 review, can be downloaded.
You will appreciate the endeavor of those residents who volunteered freely of their time to bring this publication to this advanced stage.
The JPC will keep the community fully updated with progress on both the SWLP and the NDP as we go forward into 2023.